Clean, Safe, Spices Guidance Document

ASTA’s Clean, Safe Spice Guidance has been updated. The 2017 version adds references to the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and updated information related to FDA’s Reportable Food Registry. It also contains the latest information on research into the identification of surrogates for the validation of microbial reduction techniques. Scientific references will be added to that section once the research papers are published. There are no changes to the five key recommendations:

Minimize the risk for introduction of filth throughout the supply chain

I remember when ASTA was insular. Today ASTA is more connected and engaged in so many ways….internationally, with other trade associations, with FDA and other Federal agencies, and with all of our stakeholders. The result is an association acting proactively on behalf of its membership.